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laggard
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  • "It was in nineteen—twenty-four—or twenty-five—" He had remained standing, but Royal Dumphry, shy as he had seemed at first, was no laggard with his pick and spade; he spoke to Francisco in a flip, intimate manner, but the latter, ashamed of him, joined Dick in trying to freeze him away.†  (source)
  • Throughout that first year at the Beijing Dance Academy, I was considered a laggard by most of my teachers.†  (source)
  • And again he vigorously nudged the teacher's pet in the ribs to spur his laggard humor.†  (source)
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  • The laggards and limpers who weren't running the course but running deep into their character—down into the cave to return to the light with what they found.†  (source)
  • He hurried on, skipping sometimes out of sheer deliverance, sometimes waving at a laggard pole, gurgling to himself, giggling at himself, absurdly weary.†  (source)
  • Highgarden and Storm's End support his claim, and the Dornishmen will not be laggardly.†  (source)
  • Twilight had long fallen when a little company of laggards, their SS escorts urging them to make haste, passed the building where I was still hiding.†  (source)
  • "Malluch is a laggard to-night," he said, showing where his thoughts were.†  (source)
  • A thousand feet up the immense slant of the Lhotse Face, I ascended a faded nylon rope that seemed to go on forever, and the higher I got, the more laggardly I moved.†  (source)
  • The congregation being fully assembled, now, the bell rang once more, to warn laggards and stragglers, and then a solemn hush fell upon the church which was only broken by the tittering and whispering of the choir in the gallery.†  (source)
  • The lessons of yesterday had been that retribution was a laggard and blind.†  (source)
  • "I hear fifty...sixty-five...seventy...": the bidding was laggardly, nobody seemed really to want Babe, and the man who got her, a Mennonite farmer who said he might use her for plowing, paid seventy-five dollars.†  (source)
  • Eragon charged forward, ignoring the panicked laggards within reach of his burning sword.†  (source)
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